Seriously? There is a Hot Blogger calendar? There was a big thing in England a few years ago about a group of Women's Institute hotties who stripped off for a raunchy calendar. Is it along those lines . . .

Bwaha. I had to delurk to say Congratulations! I am proud that 2 out of the 3 dad blogs I read made it into the calendar. Perhaps I'll see you around the city...And seriously, I did not realize what you meant by "Backpacking Dad" until I read your thing with Wil. Makes so.much. more sense now.

Oh thank God! This is such great news!After your last post we started to get cynical and forget for a moment that the blog world is a big beauty and popularity contest.For a brief post in time it felt like there was some thinking, some thought provoking writing happening in a world where the most votes or comments wins, and most often based on shallow superficial reason.But thank God you brought us back to reality with this great news!We compare it to a brief moment in politics where Obama made us think politics was about ideas and action, belief and hope.Then along came a gun tottin, moose burger eating, creationist believing, abortion hating beauty queen. Then all at once we remembered that ideas don’t matter, it’s all about looks!Thanks for the jolt back to reality, and we can’t wait for the calendar!

i'm with bossy. i am pretty sure the hottest blogger calendar people don't even know my name. sigh. that's ok. i can't make a trip to nyc anyway. maybe that's why i wasn't nominated. people didn't want me to feel bad that i would have to turn down a trip to nyc since i live in turkey and all. that must be it. whew...now i feel better.

Congratulations! Glad my vote counted for something. Hope you have fun in NYC. My dog (and I) got to go last year to be on tv but we were there for less then a day so other then a walk to Central Park and a few minutes of air time on the TODAY show I have yet to see the rest of the city. Hope you have a blast!